I was interested in the story of what happened when Union trrops came thru Cherokee County. My great grandfather, George Hagood, was fourteen years old when the war ended but he had the responsibility of an adult as he was the sole male left at home. The family has the story that one of his duties was to drive the livestock up on the side of the mountain whenever the Yankee patrols came thru the area. This is the only verbal family history of the Civil War that was left to me. They left Alabama just as soon as they got everyone home from the war. By 1867 they had been in what was then Clark County, Arkansas long enough that they filed for a homestead there. They apparently did not plan to stay in Arkansas and my great-great grandfather, William Bradford Hagood, sent one of his sons back to Cherokee County to pay the taxes on their land but the carpetbaggers had already taken it. One of the sons had contracted tuberculosis in the army and died right after they arrived in southwest Arkansas. One of the daughters-in-law had nursed him during his sickness and then died from the disease herself. Later another brother died from the disease too. Really a gosh-awful story to say the least. Cherokee County, Alabama is really tied up in my family's history. Boice Burns Houston, TX